FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 337

90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES HOSMER (Sponsor) AND SCHILLING.

Read 1^st time January 12, 1999, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk

L0336.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 149.192, RSMo 1994, relating to the general assembly's preemption in the field of taxation of cigarettes and tobacco products.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 149.192, RSMo 1994, is repealed as follows:

[149.192. The general assembly hereby occupies and preempts the entire field of legislation increasing the taxation of cigarettes and tobacco products to the complete exclusion of any order, ordinance or regulation by any political subdivision of this state. Any future orders, ordinances or regulations in this field shall be null and void. No county, city, town, village, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state shall adopt any order, ordinance or regulation increasing the tax levied on cigarettes and tobacco products. The tax levied by any county, city, town, village, municipality, or other political subdivision of this state shall not exceed the amount of tax levied on September 30, 1993.]

Missouri House of Representatives